A Baking Blog from Melbourne, Australia

A couple of weeks ago before I went to China, I was in front of the camera instead of behind it. It was a totally awkward moment in my life but it was fun none the less. A photographer from the Moreland Leader a local paper in Melbourne came to photograph me for a piece that the editor was doing on my book and I, my 15 mins of fame – you can read it here ;)…

It gives me great pleasure to let you all know that my book, A Piece of Cake has taken out the third place for the best Pastry book in the world at the Gourmand World Cookbook award held last night in Yantai, China. How Cool is that!! Not a bad spot for my first ever…

Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mums out there for this coming Sunday. Do you have something nice planned for her? We if not you better hop to it, you can grab her a copy of my book from here. Or you could whip her up a batch of these mini brown sugar scones. I love…

I am an Aunty for the second time ever!!!!!!! How exciting and cool is that, this time to a beautiful little girl, Charlotte. I am so happy for My Big Brother, his beautiful Wife and my little Nephew, who now has a little baby sister. Another little Purvis has joined our family clan I…

Just when you thought you could do no more chocolate after the easter overload, what do I bring you? Thats right more chocolate!!! This is one super indulgent cake and if you did go overboard at easter you should probably bookmark this one for a few weeks time – because it is AMAZING!!! I…

Yay, something out of the box, finally a savoury dish!!!! I haven’t posted anything savoury on the blog for an eternity, I’m going to take a leap of faith and say for about 2 years?? Thats far to long! We all know this girl loves a sweet treat but sometime you can’t bet…

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